Hey Nicholas, Thanks this was very helpful. I believe there is a trial for docuscan, so I think I am just going to have to try it out. As getting the partial scans sometimes through the Canon software's poor OCR can be frustrating. Just an FYI, I did need some sighted assistance when setting the canon software up, as some of the setup I couldn't get to work, but now that I have it set, I just press a button on the scanner, it scans the piece of mail, and opens automatically in preview, so that is nice. On Jun 12, 2013, at 7:39 AM, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote:
> HI Brian, > > DocuScan Plus gives me fantastic results for mail such as letters, brochures > and even credit cards and the like. One thing it does which is really good is > that it ignores images and the like and just gives you the text. Most other > programs I've used get really confused with images and give you a whole bunch > of jibberish which really interrupts the flow of reading. DocuScan's results > are also really reliable so you can use it for phone numbers, account > numbers, email addresses and URLs etcetera. It even recognises headings, > which make it easy for navigation, and makes email addresses and URLs into > hyperlinks so you can click on them directly from the document. > > I've never used the software which is native with Canoscan so I can't comment > on it. I've often found the software which comes with the scanner to be > inaccessible. So I'm surprised and impressed if you say that yours is > accessible and can do OCR. That's great. Perhaps the results aren't as good > as some of these third party apps, but you'll save some money if you stick to > what you've got. > > One down side to DocuScan Plus is that you can't use it for scanning > documents you want to send off to sighted persons. DocuScan ignores images > and just grabs the text so it's great for us but looks funny and not original > for sighted persons. So, for this type of thing, I just use Preview and > import from scanner. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
